196.195. Contents of places and utensils used must be protected.

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196.195. Contents of places and utensils used must be protected.

Contents of places and utensils used must be protected.

196.195. 1. The floors, sidewalks, ceilings, lockers,closets, furniture, receptacles, implements and machinery ofevery establishment or place where food is manufactured, packed,stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks and vehiclesused in the transportation of food products, shall at no time bekept in an unclean, unhealthy or insanitary condition, and forthe purpose of sections 196.190 to 196.265, unclean, unhealthfuland insanitary conditions shall be deemed to exist:

(1) If food in the process of manufacture, preparation,packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation is notsecurely protected from flies, dust, dirt and, as far as may benecessary, by all reasonable means from all other foreign orinjurious contamination; and

(2) If the refuse, dirt and waste products, subject todecomposition and fermentation, incident to the manufacture,preparation, packing, storing, selling, distributing andtransporting of food, are not removed daily; and

(3) If all trucks, trays, boxes, baskets, buckets and otherreceptacles, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, troughs, shelvesand all knives, saws, cleavers and other utensils, and machineryused in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning andall other processes are not fairly cleaned daily; and

(4) If the clothing of operatives, employees, clerks orother persons therein employed is unclean.

2. The placing of vinegar or other liquid, used as food ordrink, in open vessels without covering the same is forbidden.The use of secondhand bottles for vinegar or other liquids, usedas food or drink, is forbidden unless the same are firststerilized with live steam.

3. The sidewalk display of food products is prohibitedunless such products are enclosed in a showcase or similardevice, which will protect the same from flies, dust or othercontamination; provided, that food products that necessarily haveto be peeled, pared or cooked before they are fit for consumptionmay be displayed on the sidewalk; but the sidewalk display ofmeat or meat products is prohibited.